The Plattsmouth Journal
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT
PLATTSMOUTH. NEBRASKA.
R. A. BATES, Publishes.
nie red it the posiurflce at Plaiumoulh,
triuka.Mccood clana matter.
$1,50 Per Year In Advance.
The libel law of this state Is to
be amended so that a retraction after
publishing a libelous article will
prove that the publisher had no ma
licious Intent when he printed the
information In the first place. The
proposed change is an Improvement,
but it should go no further. It
should afford some protection to the
editor, who prints the truth and
at once becomes the recipient of many
dire threats by the party suffering
the supposed Injury. The practice
of enraged men rushing into the ed
itor's office, smashing up the hum
ble ftirnituro and upsetting the paste
pot, has become to be considered bad
taste, and the publishers are seldom
murderously assaulted by people who
take exceptions to what Is printed in
the papers. The telephone has aid
ed materially in changing methods
of indignant Individuals. It Is now
the custom of the Irate citizen to
call tho publisher to the telephone
and tell him in forceful language that
his scandalous sheet Is a standing In
sult to the community and that very
shortly the telephone will call and
wipe tho floor with the editor. The
fellow usually doesn't show up at
the sanctum and the editor is seldom
killed, but Is subjected by tho slow
torture of being stared to death all
the time, which, added to other
griefs, makes life a burden. Beat
rlre Sun.
For the lu( i riiihan.
The good news thut steps had been
taken at last to1 formally Incorpo
rate the lnterurban lino from this
city to Murdock, Elr.wood, Green
wood and other point'!, should cause
citizens of Cass County nnd of this
city to rejoice. This is tho best pro
ject ever placed before the people of
both the country and the city. Con
sidering the many advantages to the
tountry first, the greatest Is that of
the increased valuation land along
(he proposed lino will have. The
history of lnterurban construction
through the middle states Is one or
rapidly advanced land values and
despite the slackening of business oc
casioned by the readjustment of vnl
uvs, land values remain at tho high
level to which they were pushed by
the prosperity wave. And the prime
reason for their holding their values
Is that they lie upon the arteries of
commerce which enable their owners
to handle their products nt a mini
mum cost. Tho establishment of
freight service upon the ninny elec
tric lines through those states has
resulted In building up an Immense
(raffle In farm products. It Is the
usual sight to seo ninny trains made
up of express cars In reality freight
cars roll into the stations in the
larger titles nnd from these nro un
loaded Immense quantities of pro
duce of nil kinds. This Is the favor
ite method of handling poultry, eggs,
butter, milk and like produce. These
Hues have stations every mile or
every two mil's which are points
from which tho farmer of the neigh
borhood ships his merchandise. The
passenge r service can be regulated to
suit the business. Following the cx-
prtss cars with tho products the
runner can step Into a comfortable
passenger rcr nnd In n few minutes
he Is In the market with bis products
The case with which this system has
built up markets In the middle stntes
Is wonderful nnd to them Is owing In
a great measure the wonderful pros
pority of the people of the farming
vommunltles of that section.
As an additional result of their
construct ion, country homes have
rprung up along their lines running
far Inte the country. In tho more
hickly settled portions houses line
.tie road so that there seems to be
a tast city spread out over tho land
This has resulted In causing the
Isrgo farms to be rut Into sninH
tracts of ten, twenty and forty acres
--ldcal suburban homes which com
tnanj high values. Those living along
these Hues have the additional pleas
ure of being so situated that they
mny attend any gathering In the city
the theater, the church, local ctle
brations, everything in fact which
their taste may Incline to. This has
wonderfully improved the social life
of the country as it places the coun
try resident upon the same footing
as that of his neighbor of the city.
Taking up the advantages of the
city dweller. It means creating a
market for farm products In this city,
the building up of business, the es
tablishment of new firms and Indus
tries and a big advance In realty
values of every klnd.In the butter,
egg and poultry business alone thous
ands and tens of thousands of dol
lars would be disbursed In this city
and every dollar of it would be a
benefit to the merchants and proper
ty owners here. Whatever benefits
the one is bound to benefit the other.
In addition it means a relief from
the exhorbitant charges for neces
sities of life which are now pur
chased from the packing houses and
cold storage plants or done without.
Then If the new road should bo an
electric one, it would mean power for
the city, the erection of a new power
houso and the Investment of many
thousands of dollars in machinery
and equipment. It would mean In
that case, a lighting Bystem with
which all could be contented. It
would mean a local street car sys
tem for this city. It It means no
more it would afford a street car line
along the two main avenues to the
Burlington and Missouri Pacific de
pots furnishing a cheap and rapid
method of transport. As the city
grew ant) the benefits of the road
became manifest, a street car system
for the entire city would develop.
This is an additional cause for ad
vancing property values.
This la a brief resume of what
the lnterurban means to Platts
mouth and Cass County, and
Is one of the reasons why every busi
ness man and farmer In the county
should favor It. It means dollars
to everyone In or near Its neighbor
hood. Any possible mans of con
structing the line or aiding in its
construction should meet the approv
al of all Interested In their own wel
fare. The Journal has, from tho
commencement Insisted this project
was the best for the people nnd It
The men who havo started the
ball rolling , deserve the sincere
thanks of the public for their enter
prise anil they deserve to be helped
toward the sure success.
The famous $29,000,000 Standard
Oil lawsuit which has been on trial
fi.r several weeks In the federal
tr.rt at Chicago, has endej in the
rant instructing the Jury to return
a verdict of "Not guilty" and releas
ing the Standard Oil Company from
paying anything . Tho reversal of the
original tnso In which Judge Land Is
assessed the heavy fine, foreshadowed
this decision. It is such decisions as
this coupled with tlint of Judge Mc
pherson In tho Missouri Passenger
Unto case which leuds people to be
lieve there is cue law for tho rich
and powerful corporation and another
fcr the mass of the people. The rul
ings of Judge Anderson who detlded
tho Standard Oil case Indicated
throughout that he was going to
make the ease of the government an
extremely difficult one to prove. It
Is rewritable that these two decis
ions have been made. They are pav
ing the way to radical laws every
day when such constructions niepltic-
upon the statutes. People wonder
at the growth of socialism when they
should bo able to so? the cause for It
under their very eyes. If the gov
ernment Is shorn of the power to
regulate these monster corporations
creatures of their own making
then they will take steps to tnke over
these bodies and operate them for
the benefit of the great mass of the
people and not for the Interest of
any set of stockholders. The owners
of the corporations should themselves
seo what Is In storo and they should
seek to prevent tho coming storm by
admitting government control. If It
Is not control It will be ownership
and the corporations and the stock
holders who tlo not want this will
do well to consider the effect of their
fight. Judge Anderson's decision may
be good law as may that of Judge
McPhcrson but It Is stretching tho
laws to tho breaking point to hnve
the court of Its own motion, place
additional safeguards about the
statutes already strong enough to
protect capital. Conservative busl
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ness men who want their country's
welfare protected should view these
two decisfons with alarm.
IOU REVISION ()K Till: TARIFF.
Popular Sentiment, Regardless of
Party, DciunniN a Reduction.
From the Chicago Tribune (Hep.)
For the first time in many years
the public Is taking a lively Interest
In tho tariff question. Politicians
and manufacturers have had more
or less to sny about it, but the mass
of the people havo been Indifferent.
They paid little attention while the
McKlnley tariff act was being consi
dered. They did not ask for It, and
for one reason and another they re
pudiated it after It was passed. At
the time of the enactment of the
Wilson nnd the Dingley laws tho peo
ple were thinking of silver far more
than they were of tho tariff.
Now the. one has passed out of
mind and the other has come to the
front. There Is a genuine popular
demand for tariff legislation. A
newspaper which recently tried to
find what legislation its subscribers
wished to get from the Sixty-tlrst!
Congress ascertained that what they
chiefly wanted was tariff revision.
Another Interesting feature of the
situation Is that so many manufactur
ers are asking for low duties or no
duties on many articles. They are
largely the manufacturers who want
cheaper raw material, so they may
hf Kl or enlarge their trade In foreign
markets, while the ordinary consum
er has a general Impression that he
has to pay more for some articles
than ho should because of excessive
tariff duties. These manufactur
ers see dearly how tho export trade
of the country In manufactures is
hampered and chocked by certain
duties. They are valuable auxil
iaries In the popular campaign for
tariff revision a rovlslon of the
downward, not of tho upward kind
This popular sentiment, which
knows no party, which prevails
among Democrats, Is something
which Congress cannot trltle with
It Is something which the old stagers
of the ways nnd means committee,
The National prestige of Uneeda Biscuit is
baked in. The moment you take a biscuit
from the package, as soon as you taste it, the
reason becomes apparent why so many hun
dred millions of packages of Uneeda Biscuit
have been bought by the American people.
NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
who cannot have forgotten the disas
terous political consequences of the
enactment of an unpopular tariff law,
cannot safely ignore. The bill to be
submitted by them to the House this
month will be scanned more careful
ly by a greater number of people
than any other previous tariff bill.
Tho country looks for tho "tariff bill
drawn In good faith" President Taft
mentioned in his Inaugural address.
An attempt at sham revision would
be followed by stormy protests. The
people of small means and they are
the majority ask for a revision that
will lower the cost of living by re
ducing the ability of monopolies to
put up prices.
Why not run a "personal revenge'
ticket?
Aapaln the qretion Why a "citi
zens" ticket. Taxpayers in Pl.itts
mouth look into this.
What object can men ha.o l;i be
ing so solicitous about who shall run
fcr tl.'ice? It couldn't po-i.dMy In-til-.-
r.ppohulve offices could 11?
While Interuibans nro biing pro
jected, the question of sinMl fac
tories should not be overlooked, tie',
the small factory for the cliv and
build up business.
Everyone Indorses the proposed in
terurbnn line to Murdock. Every
one met with so far has stated hi
Intention of subscribing liberally to
stock In It and thnt Is the right spir
it. Get behind this movement and
b illd the lino ant', make Pluttsiiioutii
tho best city In enstern Nebraska
Resigns Ills Position.
Dury Phebus who for the past five
years hns been connected with the
local Burlington supply department
and who for the past five years hns
most successfully filled the position
of price clerk at the storehouse, ten
tiered his resignation on the 4th Inst.,
same to take effect on March 18th
it Is understood that Drury expects
to engage In the agricultural busl
ness and If he should happen to lo
cato along tho right of way of the
Plattsmouth Southwestern Intcrur
ban Hallway, we assure hi m success
Sues onXlglit lioriiU
City Attorney Ramsey this morn
ing filed a petition In the case against
Earl C. Wescott, Charles C. Parmele
and Thos. E. Parmele, the two latter
gentlemen as sureties upon tho bond
of Mr. Wescott for ?3,500 which was
conditioned for the construction of a
light plant and to carry out his con
tract for lighting the city. This is
the action which the city council or
dered taken some time since and
which has occasioned somo of the
peoplo of the city so much worry.
Further notice of the case will bo
given Monday.
To Probate Itanium's Will.
A petition was filed in county court
today asking the appointment of Mrs.
llattle Barnum as executor of the
last will and testament of the late
Thomas C. Barnum of Union. The
petition also asks for tho probate of
the last will and testament of Mr.
Barnum and fixes the value of the
property left by him nt $13,000. W.
C. Ramsey appears for the will.'
I'licqualcil ns u Cure for Croup.
"Besides being an excellent rem
edy for colds and throat troubles,
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Is un
oqunled as a cure for croup." says
Harry Wilson of Waynetown, Ind.
When given as soon ns the croupy
cough appears, this remedy wjll pre
vent the attack. It Is used success
fully in many thousands of homes.
For sale by F. G. Frlcke & Co.
Guy Selver and wife tamo In last
evening for a visit with his sister
Mrs. J. E. Thompson for severa'l
days., Mr. and Mrs. Solver have only
been married a short time nnd of
course, they are bound to find their
trip a pleasant one. During their
stay In the city they can be assured
of a fine time with Mrs. Thompson
and will undoubtedly meet many of
that estimable lady's estimnblgkqj
that estimable lady's friends.
Frank Gobelman and wife were
passengers this morning for Omaha
where he goes to have an operation
performed upon his leg. The opera
tion Is to be performed at Immanucl
hospital and Is the outgrowth of a
longstanding complaint. He was
greatly afraid that amputation of the
leg might be necessary. His many
friends In this city hope that his
fears are groundless and that he
may return to the city in the full
possession of health and that no
dangerous operation will be neces
sary.
A
PROPERTY IN PLATTSMOUTH
FOR ,
Two corner lots on North 7th Street.
Residence at corner fth and t Port
land Street.
Residence at corner 7th and Dey St.
Residence at corner 5th and Ixicust
Street.
Residence at corner 4th and Granite
Street.
Residence on Granite Street, he.
twecn 3rd and 4th Street.
Four lots between Cth and fith street.
on Walnut.
Two houses nnd nhnnr, 11 nrrna nonr
Columbian School.
13 acres about 1 mile south of C... R.
& Q. bridge.
bee
J. E.
II
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Temporary Office Two Poors North of
,i m'.v- n .. 1 ostollice.
Also North and South Dakota farms
for sale.
For Disease ttf Cue skin.
':i.rly all '.11k-"i r-.-t of the skin Sh-Ii
ns eczema, tetter, salt rheum nnd
barber's Itch, are characterized
by an lntenso Itching t nnd
smarting, which oftens makes
Ufa a burden and disturbs sleep nnd
rest. Quick relief may bo had by ap
plying Chamberlvln's Salve. It al
lays the itching and smarting al
most Instantly. Many eyes have
been cured by Its use. For sale by
F. G. Frlcke & Co.
La IE! I
BARWlGK
SOTK'K Til ItKIHiOil
In County Court,
n County Court.
In the mutter of (lie mint, of John
II. Melalniier. ilecenio'il.
Notion la herehy slven l,,t rrnt-
ItOI'H of SHllI PMtlllM vtlll IMI-Kl tilt)
executor of unlit exliite. hi-fure 1 1 1 ,
County Jihtirft of Cnen fount). NehrHa
kn. t the County Court room In 1'luttn
moiitli, In unlit County, on the I! will iIhv
of Muri-h. Item, ami on tint 2Utli iluy of
Sept em tier, 1 UOH. nt II) o'clock m. in.
moll lny for the puipoH of present
Inn their clulin for exmnlnuUon, ad
justment nml nllownnce.
Six moot hn urn Hllnweit for the creil
Horn of milit iltM-PHHi'il to present their
rlnlnin. srl oim yenr for the execntorn
to settle unlit cMute, from the '.I t li day
of Mnrrh, ISMIH.
ltno my I'nml ami srnl of snhl
Countv Court, nt rinllKinoulh, Nehru
kn. this lft lny of March, 19'IU.
(.Soul.)
Allen J. Pornnn,
County JiuIkc
I). O. Dwyer.
Attorney for ettAte.
